Door-hanger.



PATENTED MAY 8, 1906.

T. C. PROUTY.

DOOR HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 14, 1905.

nnrrnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THEODORE O. PROUTY, OF AURORA, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO WILCOX TION OF ILLINOIS.

DOOR-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 8, 1906.

Application filed August 14, 1905. Serial Na 274,219.

1'0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THEODORE O. PROUTY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Aurora, county of Kane, State of Illinois,

5 have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door-Hangers, of which the following is a full and complete specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to door-hangers of the type shown in Letters Patent No. 7 7 4,338, dated November 8, 1904, granted and issued to me. In the door-hanger shown in said patent the lower portion that is adapted to be secured to the opposite sides of the door at the upper end of the door is made of two portions, each having its ends bent to form horizontal parts, these horizontal end parts being held within bearing-blocks and being movable, so as to bring the depending portions of the device farther from or closer to each other to adapt the device to doors of different widths, In my present invention I retain this idea of adjustability to accommodate different widths of doors, but provide an improved construction whereby the bearingblock and one of the members of the lower portion are formed from a single piece of ma terial. In this construction the member for the opposite side of the door is adjustable only instead of both members, as in my patented construction.

By my improvements I simplify the construction, cheapen the cost, and at the same 5 time provide a very strong and effective device, and I accomplish this by the means shown in the drawings and hereinafter specifically described.

That which I believe to be new will be pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved hanger in position on a track-rail. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the lower portion of the hanger, showing also in dotted lines the adjustable members when pulled out into position to receive a large door. Fig. 3 is a vertical section at line 2 2 of Fig. 2, some of the parts being shown in elevation. Fig. 4 is a view of the blank from which one of the bearingblocks and one of the door-pieces are formed.

Referring to the several figures of the drawings, in which the same parts are indicated by the same reference characters, 5 indicates the wheel-carrying frame of the hanger; 6, the wheel journaled therein; 7, a section of the track-rail upon which the wheel 6 runs and 8 one of the brackets adapted to support the track-rail. These parts may be of any desired construction.

The lower portion of the hanger to which a door is to be attached consists in the construction shown of three principal parts-to wit, two combined attaching-arms and bearing-blocks, each combined attaching arm and bearing-block being, as shown, formed from a single piece of sheet metal and an adj ustable frame adapted for attachment to the opposite side of the door from that to which the said two arms are attached. Each of the attaching-arms referred to is indicated by 10 and the bearing-blocks by 11. 12 indicates two upwardly-extending ears formed from the same blank as the arm 10 and bearing block 11, these ears being apertured to receive a pivot-bolt 13, that also passes through other ears 14 at the lower end of the wheelcarrying frame 5. The adjustable frame referred to that is adapted to be attached to the opposite side of the door from that to which the arms 10 are to be attached consists of two vertical arms 15, the ends 16 of which are turned to horizontal positions to adapt them to slide in the bearing-blocks 11, and a connection 17 between such arms, which connection is preferably integral with such arms and curved, as shown, but which may be otherwise formed or which may be omitted entirely, if so desired.

In order that the manner of constructing one of the combined arms 10, bearing-blocks 11, and pair of ears 12 may be clearly understood, I have illustrated in Fig. 4 a blank from which such parts are formed. In such figure, 1O indicates the part that bybending at right angles to the other or larger part of the blank is formed into the arm 10. The larger part 11 is bent on itself into the form shown clearly in Fig. 1 in such manner as to leave a channel open from end to end of proper size and shape to receive the horizontal part 16 of one of the arms 15, the parts 12 at each end of the blank being turned up to form the ears 12, by which the combined arm and bearing-block is attached in place, as described. These ears, extending up, as they do, from opposite sides of the sheet of material from which the bearing-block is formed and standing parallel and close to each other, are held in position by the attaching-bolt 13 and, being so held, serve to prevent the bearing-block with which they are formed from spreading or becoming distorted by the weight of the suspended door, thereby insuring at all times a proper formation to the channel of the bearing-block that will enable the adjustable frame to be easily and quickly changed to adapt the device for any size of door that it can be used in connection with.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a door-hanger, the combination ,with a wheel-frame, of an arm comprising a vertical portion adapted to be attached to one face of a door and a horizontal portion adapted to lie over the upper edge of the door, said horizontal portion being constructed to form a channel adapted to receive and hold the end of another arm, a second arm adapted to be attached to the opposite face of the door and having a turned end adapted to be inserted in said channel, and means for connecting said wheel-frame with the door-carrying parts, substantially as described.

2. In a door-hanger, the combination, with a wheel-frame, of an arm comprising a vertical portion adapted to be attached to one face of a door and a horizontal ortion adapted to lie over the upper edge 0 the door, said horizontal portion having its sides turned upward and inward to form a channeled block, a second arm adapted to be attached to the opposite face of the door and having a turned end adapted to be engaged and held by said block, and means for connecting said wheelframe with said door-carrying parts, substantially as described.

3. In a door-hanger, the combination,with

a wheel-frame, of an arm comprising a vertical portion adapted to be attached to one face of a door and a horizontal portion adapted to lie over the upper edge oi the door, said horizontal portion having its sides turned upward and inward to form a channeled block and having vertical ears formed with said upwardly and inwardly turned sides, and means assing through said ears for connecting sai wheel-frame with said door-carrying parts, substantially as described.

THEODORE C. PROUTY. In presence of- A. M. Soo'rT, M. L. PADDOCK. 

